Despite Your Phone's Privacy Features, You're Still Being Tracked Online

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4.2 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Apple and Google last year drew praise from consumer privacy advocates when they took steps to stop advertisers and other third party companies from tracking users’ online activities. Apple introduced new privacy settings for its mobile devices, and Google announced a plan to block digital tracking cookies from its Chrome browser by the end of 2023. But another form of digital tracking, known as “first party” tracking, is now on the rise by Google, Pinterest, Tik-Tok and other sites that gather users' searches, location data and other information. We'll get the latest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.3	Coming up on forum, you might be tapping, Ask App not to track when that window pops up on your iPhone, or hailing Google's
0:55.0	promise to disable tracking technology on its Chrome browser, making it harder for advertisers
1:00.3	and other third-party companies to monitor your online activities.
1:04.6	But now another form of digital tracking is on the rise, first party tracking.
1:09.3	We'll learn more. then questions and confusion have
1:13.0	engulfed Twitter since Elon Musk became the company's largest individual
1:17.2	shareholder will the multi-billionaire and self-described free speech absolutist
1:22.2	affect the way you use the social media platform? Forum is next after this news.
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